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Gronovii, mistaken for H. Piloseila of the Eng. Botany 1098. 



Juniper, which Cardanus saith is cedar in hot countries and 

 Juniper in cold countries ; it is here very dwarfish and shrubby, 

 growing for the most part by the Seaside. This is our 

 Juniperus Virginianus^ at that early period presenting the 

 same bushy and stunted appearance as it does now upon our 

 Avashed away and bare rocky pastures. 



Willow. Salix spp : 



Spurge Lawrel, called here poyson berry. It kills the 

 English cattle if they chance to feed upon it, especially calves. 

 Kalmia angustlfolia taken for Daphne Laureola, (Eng. 

 Bot. 119.) 



Gaul or Noble Mirtle. Myrica Gale^ Sweet Gale, hence 

 " Gaul f also called Sweet Willoio by Parkinson. 



Elder, common also to England. Sambucus Canadensis^ 

 for S. nigra. 



Dwarf Elder. This is the Sambucus Ebulus of England, 

 (Eng. Bot. 475) but what New England plant was taken for 

 it, I am unable to determine. 



Alder. Alnus sp : for Alnus glutinosa of English Botany 

 1508. 



Hazel. Corylus sp : for Corylus avellana. 



Filberd, both with hairy husks upon the nuts and setting 

 hollow from the Nut and filled with a kind of water of an 

 astringent taste, &c. Corylus Americana and C. rostrata^ for 

 Corylus Avellana of the cultivated kinds in England, having 

 large fruits. We are told that it "(the water)" is very good 

 for sore Mouths and falling of the Pallat, as is the whole green 

 Nut before it comes to the Kernel burnt and pulverized, the 

 Kernels are seldom without Maggots in them." {Rhynchce- 

 nus nasicus. — Say.) 



Our treatise of "New England's Rarities Discovered" favors 

 us with " two figures of the Walnut," which sadly remind 

 us of the Pig nut ( Carya glabra) and of an inferior variety 

 of the Shagbark (Carya alba), giving rather a poor idea of our 

 New England nuts — and of which it well says that " the Nuts 

 differ much from ours in Europe * * * * all of them 

 but thinly replenished with Kernels." But as a pleasant set 



